Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s divorce was finalized in September 2024, nearly a year after Jonas filed. The final judgment was issued on September 6, according to ABC News’s account of the court docket. The settlement terms were reported as confidential, and public coverage does not establish the details of their financial arrangements or final parenting provisions.
When was the divorce finalized?
Jonas filed for divorce in Miami-Dade County on September 5, 2023. A final judgment was issued on September 6, 2024, ABC News reported, citing the court docket. RTÉ also reported that a Miami-Dade judge approved the agreement.
The filing and the final judgment mark different stages: the filing began the divorce case; the judgment finalized it. In September 2023, Jonas’s filing described the marriage as “irretrievably broken,” according to the Associated Press. That was language in the filing, not a judge’s statement.
What is known about the settlement?
Reports said the settlement terms were confidential. The public accounts reviewed do not substantiate specific financial or property terms, or detailed final parenting provisions. Sky News reported that the judge considered the agreement, particularly its parenting plan, to be in the children’s best interest; it did not publish the plan’s full terms.
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Jonas’s 2023 filing said he expected a prenuptial agreement to be enforced, the Associated Press reported. The cited coverage does not disclose the prenup’s terms or explain how it affected the final settlement.
How the custody agreement differed from the final judgment
The couple reached a custody agreement before the divorce was finalized. In January 2024, a New York child-abduction lawsuit related to their dispute was dismissed after that agreement. The Los Angeles Times reported that their daughters would split time between the United Kingdom with Turner and the United States with Jonas.
That January agreement and the September final judgment were separate legal developments. The custody coverage describes the earlier arrangement; it does not, by itself, establish every provision of the final judgment.
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Key dates in the case
- May 2019: Jonas and Turner married, according to Associated Press coverage of the filing.
- September 5, 2023: Jonas filed for divorce in Miami-Dade County. The filing described the marriage as “irretrievably broken” and sought joint custody, the Associated Press reported.
- September 6, 2023: The couple issued identical public statements: “After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage.” They also asked for privacy for themselves and their children, according to the Associated Press. The statement conveyed their public characterization of the split; it does not establish that every later legal issue was uncontested.
- January 2024: The child-abduction lawsuit was dismissed after the parties reached a custody agreement, the Los Angeles Times reported.
- September 6, 2024: The final judgment was issued, according to ABC News’s account of the court docket.
- September 11, 2024: ABC News, Sky News and RTÉ reported that the divorce had been finalized or approved.
